The Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla is the definitive record of the pioneering work of one of the modern world’s most groundbreaking inventors. During the early twentieth century, Nikola Tesla blazed the trail that electrical...

The founder of modern nursing expressed her revolutionary ideas of hospital reform in these two essays, published in 1859 and presented the previous year at the Social Science Congress. During the Crimean War, Florence Nightingale achieved renown as...

Excerpt from Parallel Merge Sort We give a parallel implementation of merge sort on a crew pram that uses 11 processors and O(logn) time; the constant in the running time is small. We also give a more complex version of the algorithm for the erew...

Excerpt from Solving Sparse Triangular Linear Systems Using Fortran With Parallel Extensions of the Nyu Ultracomputer Prototype First use equation 1 to solve for the first solution component. Given this first component, solve either equation 2 for...

Excerpt from Intermediate Arithmetic Our common notation started in India about 2000 years ago. The Arabs took it to Europe. Therefore these symbols are called Arabic numerals. You know that there are nine of these numerals besides the zero, which is...

Excerpt from A Key to the Western Calculator: Containing the Solution of All the Examples and Questions for Exercise, With Reference to the Pages Where They Stand The sign of equality, and is pronounced equal. The sign of addition, pronounced added...

Excerpt from A Key to the Western Calculator: Containing the Solution of All the Examples and Questions for Exercise, Whith Reference to the Pages Where They Stand A vinculum IS placed over several quantities to danot that they are to be considered...

Excerpt from Elementary School Mathematics by Grades, Globe Series, Vol. 7: Arithmetic, Geometry, and Algebra 3. John's bicycle cost and his father's cost three times as much, less 50 15. Find the cost of his father's. About the Publisher Forgotten...

Excerpt from A Key to the Western Calculator: Containing the Solution of All the Examples and Questions for Exercise, With Reference to the Pages Where They Stand The sign of equality, and is pronounced equal. The sign of addition, pronounced added...

Excerpt from The Apram: The Rounds Complexity Measure and the Explicit Costs of Synchronization In this paper we consider the effect of process asynchrony on parallel algorithm design. As is well known, the main effort in parallel algorithm design...

Excerpt from Key to Leonard's Arithmetic: For Teachers Only The scholar should not be required to proceed in each sum in the same manner that is pursued here; it is sufficient if he ob tains the true answer by' a correct method, though it be more...

Excerpt from Approximate Parallel Scheduling, Vol. 1: The Basic Technique With Applications to Optimal Parallel List Ranking in Logarithmic Time Input: A linked list of length n. It is given in an array of length n, not necessarily in the order of...

Excerpt from Selection of Econometric Models With Out-of-Sample Data Knowing that a statistic tends to choose the best model is often not enough. Instead, it is desirable to know whether two competing models are significantly different in terms of...

Excerpt from On Parallel Searching There has been recently an increasing interest in the study of tightly coupled parallel machines. Parallel processors have been around for some time, and with the advance in microelectronics it becomes feasible to...

Excerpt from The Vital Statistics of Boston: Containing an Abstract of the Bills of Mortality for the Last Twenty-Nine Years, and a General View of the Population and Health of the City at Other Periods of Its History The records of deaths are made...

Excerpt from Faster Optimal Parallel Preﬁx Sums and List Ranking Remark Brent's theorem is stated for models of computation where not all computa tional overheads are taken into account. Specifically, the proof Of Brent's theorem poses two...

Excerpt from Investigating Smooth Multiple Regression by the Method of Average Derivatives The output of the procedure is three - fold: a summary of the relative impacts of changes in x on y (via a graphical depiction of the possible nonlinearity...

Excerpt from A Key Containing the Statements and Solutions of Questions in Professor Charles Davies' New Elementary Algebra: For the Use of Teachers Only It was not intended, originally, to prepare a Key to the Elementary Algebra, but the urgent...

Excerpt from XML Modeling Language for Linear Programming: Specification and Examples XML employs the full ascii character set. No distinction is made, however, between the lower - case and upper - case forms of a letter; they may be used...

Excerpt from A Metadata Approach to Resolving Semantic Conflicts With the development of complex information systems, the need for the integration of heterogeneous information systems, and the availability of numerous online computer data sources, it...

Excerpt from Investigation of Inequalities in the Motion of the Moon Produced by the Action of the Planets The theory of the action of the planets on the Moon being, in several points, the most intricate with which the mathematical astronomer has to...

The Freakonomics of math--a math-world superstar unveils the hidden beauty and logic of the world and puts its power in our handsThe math we learn in school can seem like a dull set of rules, laid down by the ancients and not to be questioned. In How...

Stephen Hawking's new book, 'The Grand Design' (written together with Leonard Mlodinow), is his first popular science book for about ten years. It seems to have created quite a stir in the non-scientific press, although in reality the book is very...

This loose-leaf, three-hole punched version of the textbook gives students the flexibility to take only what they need to class and add their own notes--all at an affordable price. For courses in algebra-based introductory physics. Make physics...

This text presents an intuitive and robust mathematical image of fundamental particle physics based on a novel approach to quantum field theory, which is guided by four carefully motivated metaphysical postulates. In particular, the book explores a...

'The man who makes physics sexy . . . the scientist they're calling the next Stephen Hawking.' --The Times Magazine From the New York Times-bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and the forthcoming The Order of Time, a closer look at...

Excerpt from Balancing of Engines, Steam, Gas, and Petrol: An Elementary d104-Book, Using Principally Graphical Methods; For the Use of Students, Draughtsmen, Designers, and Buyers of Engines; With Numerous Tables and Diagrams The development of the...

Excerpt from The Museum of Science and Art, Vol. 9 The Western or lesser continent consists of North and South America. The great or eastern continent, having been known to the ancients, is often called the Old Continent or the Old World. About the...